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Bug 608172 - app-misc/figlet-2.2.5 with sys-libs/musl - In file included from figlet.c:77:0: utf8.h:30:1: error: unknown type name ‘__BEGIN_DECLS’
Summary: app-misc/figlet-2.2.5 with sys-libs/musl - In file included from figlet.c:77:...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: AMD64 Linux
: Normal normal (vote)
Assignee: No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it
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Blocks: musl-porting
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Reported: 2017-02-04 05:09 UTC by Berne Campbell
Modified: 2021-05-01 18:05 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
Proposed Patch (musl-fix-cplusplus-decls.patch,479 bytes, patch)
2021-01-14 11:34 UTC, Berne Campbell
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Description Berne Campbell 2017-02-04 05:09:27 UTC
On a musl based system I cannot emerge figlet, I get a compilation error due to utf8.h:30:1: error: unknown type name ‘__BEGIN_DECLS’. This seems to be a bug in upstream figlet (which seems unmaintained).

```
gentoobb-bob-musl:20170127 config # emerge figlet
Calculating dependencies... done!

>>> Verifying ebuild manifests

>>> Emerging (1 of 1) app-misc/figlet-2.2.5::gentoo
>>> Downloading 'http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz'
--2017-02-04 06:39:54--  http://distfiles.gentoo.org/distfiles/figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz
Resolving distfiles.gentoo.org... 137.226.34.46, 156.56.247.195, 140.211.166.134, ...
Connecting to distfiles.gentoo.org|137.226.34.46|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 233201 (228K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: '/usr/portage/distfiles/figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz'

/usr/portage/distfi 100%[===================>] 227.74K   111KB/s    in 2.0s

2017-02-04 06:39:57 (111 KB/s) - '/usr/portage/distfiles/figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz' saved [233201/233201]

 * figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ...                                                                                                                   [ ok ]
>>> Unpacking source...
>>> Unpacking figlet-2.2.5.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/figlet-2.2.5/work
>>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/figlet-2.2.5/work
>>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/figlet-2.2.5/work/figlet-2.2.5 ...
>>> Source prepared.
>>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/figlet-2.2.5/work/figlet-2.2.5 ...
>>> Source configured.
>>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/app-misc/figlet-2.2.5/work/figlet-2.2.5 ...
make -j2 clean
rm -f *.o *~ core figlet chkfont
make -j2 CC=x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl-gcc LD=x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl-gcc 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed' prefix=/usr all
x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl-gcc -c -O2 -pipe -DTLF_FONTS -DDEFAULTFONTDIR=\"/usr/share/figlet\" \
        -DDEFAULTFONTFILE=\"standard\" -o figlet.o figlet.c
x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl-gcc -c -O2 -pipe -DTLF_FONTS -DDEFAULTFONTDIR=\"/usr/share/figlet\" \
        -DDEFAULTFONTFILE=\"standard\" -o zipio.o zipio.c
In file included from figlet.c:77:0:
utf8.h:30:1: error: unknown type name ‘__BEGIN_DECLS’
 __BEGIN_DECLS
 ^
utf8.h:32:9: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘utf8_to_wchar’
 size_t  utf8_to_wchar(const char *in, size_t insize, wchar_t *out,
         ^
In file included from figlet.c:80:0:
zipio.h:76:1: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’ or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘typedef’
 typedef struct {
 ^
figlet.c: In function ‘skiptoeol’:
zipio.h:82:11: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘len’
   ((--((f)->len) >= 0)             \
           ^
figlet.c:357:16: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
   while (dummy=Zgetc(fp),dummy!=EOF) {
                ^
zipio.h:83:27: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘ptr’
     ? (unsigned char)(*(f)->ptr++) \
                           ^
figlet.c:357:16: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
   while (dummy=Zgetc(fp),dummy!=EOF) {
                ^
zipio.h:82:11: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘len’
   ((--((f)->len) >= 0)             \
           ^
figlet.c:360:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
       dummy = Zgetc(fp);
               ^
zipio.h:83:27: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘ptr’
     ? (unsigned char)(*(f)->ptr++) \
                           ^
figlet.c:360:15: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
       dummy = Zgetc(fp);
               ^
zipio.h:87:7: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘ptr’
   ((f)->ptr--, (f)->len++, (c))
       ^
figlet.c:361:42: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zungetc’
       if (dummy != EOF && dummy != '\n') Zungetc(dummy,fp);
zipio.h:87:19: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘len’
   ((f)->ptr--, (f)->len++, (c))
                   ^
figlet.c:361:42: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zungetc’
       if (dummy != EOF && dummy != '\n') Zungetc(dummy,fp);
                                          ^
figlet.c: In function ‘myfgets’:
zipio.h:82:11: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘len’
   ((--((f)->len) >= 0)             \
           ^
figlet.c:385:12: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
   while((c=Zgetc(fp))!=EOF&&maxlen) {
            ^
zipio.h:83:27: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘ptr’
     ? (unsigned char)(*(f)->ptr++) \
                           ^
figlet.c:385:12: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
   while((c=Zgetc(fp))!=EOF&&maxlen) {
            ^
zipio.h:82:11: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘len’
   ((--((f)->len) >= 0)             \
           ^
figlet.c:390:11: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
       c = Zgetc(fp);
           ^
zipio.h:83:27: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘ptr’
     ? (unsigned char)(*(f)->ptr++) \
                           ^
figlet.c:390:11: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zgetc’
       c = Zgetc(fp);
           ^
zipio.h:87:7: error: ‘ZFILE’ has no member named ‘ptr’
   ((f)->ptr--, (f)->len++, (c))
       ^
figlet.c:391:34: note: in expansion of macro ‘Zungetc’
       if (c != EOF && c != '\n') Zungetc(c,fp);
```

figlet shouldn't be using __BEGIN_DECLS ccording to the musl FAQ http://wiki.musl-libc.org/wiki/FAQ#Q:_I.27m_trying_to_compile_something_against_musl_and_I_get_error_messages_about_sys.2Fcdefs.h

It states: -

```
Until it gets fixed, patch the program to remove the include line and replace all occurences of:

__BEGIN_DECLS
with

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif
and all occurences of

__END_DECLS
with

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif
```

I see that Alpine Linux's APORTS patches figlet to resolve this issue. https://github.com/alpinelinux/aports/blob/master/main/figlet/musl-fix-cplusplus-decls.patch

It seems that upstream figlet is unmaintained. I think the ebuild should be updated to apply the same or similar patch that Alpine/Aport's does to fix this issue so that it's possible to emerge figlet on a musl based system.

My emerge --info: -

```
gentoobb-bob-musl:20170127 figlet-2.2.5 # emerge --info
Portage 2.3.1 (python 2.7.12-final-0, hardened/linux/musl/amd64, gcc-4.9.4, musl-1.1.15-r2, 4.4.39-gentoo x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-4.4.39-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_M-5Y71_CPU_@_1.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.3
KiB Mem:     4048004 total,   2521680 free
KiB Swap:    2097148 total,   2095484 free
Timestamp of repository gentoo: Fri, 03 Feb 2017 00:45:01 +0000
sh bash 4.3_p48-r1
ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25.1 p1.1) 2.25.1
distcc 3.2rc1 x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl [disabled]
app-shells/bash:          4.3_p48-r1::gentoo
dev-lang/perl:            5.22.3_rc4::gentoo
dev-lang/python:          2.7.12::gentoo, 3.4.5::gentoo
dev-util/pkgconfig:       0.28-r2::gentoo
sys-apps/baselayout:      2.3::gentoo
sys-apps/openrc:          0.22.4::gentoo
sys-apps/sandbox:         2.10-r1::musl
sys-devel/autoconf:       2.69::gentoo
sys-devel/automake:       1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo
sys-devel/binutils:       2.25.1-r1::gentoo
sys-devel/gcc:            4.9.4-r99::musl
sys-devel/gcc-config:     1.7.3::gentoo
sys-devel/libtool:        2.4.6-r2::gentoo
sys-devel/make:           4.1-r1::gentoo
sys-kernel/linux-headers: 4.4::musl (virtual/os-headers)
sys-libs/musl:            1.1.15-r2::gentoo
Repositories:

gentoo
    location: /usr/portage
    sync-type: rsync
    sync-uri: rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage
    priority: -1000

musl
    location: /var/lib/layman/musl
    masters: gentoo
    priority: 50

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict u
nknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox usersync xattr"
FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org"
INSTALL_MASK="charset.alias"
LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
PKGDIR="/packages/x86_64-gentoo-linux-musl"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/dist
files --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --exclude=/.git"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
USE="amd64 bindist cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fortran hardened iconv modules nls nptl openmp pax_kernel pcre pic readline seccomp session ssl tcpd threads unicode xattr zlib" ABI_X8
6="64" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_gr
oupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_confi
g logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables kr
ita karbon braindump author" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" CPU_FLAGS_X86="mmx mmxext sse sse2" ELIBC="musl" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earth
mate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock isync itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf skytraq superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt u
blox ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="libinput keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presente
r-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="en" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-6" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_4" RUBY_TARGE
TS="ruby21" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="dummy fbdev v4l" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal r
awnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account"
Unset:  CC, CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, CXX, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, LC_ALL, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
```
Comment 1 Anthony Basile gentoo-dev 2017-11-20 21:31:25 UTC
(In reply to Berne Campbell from comment #0)
> On a musl based system I cannot emerge figlet, I get a compilation error due
> to utf8.h:30:1: error: unknown type name ‘__BEGIN_DECLS’. This seems to be a
> bug in upstream figlet (which seems unmaintained).

Replace all instances of __BEGIN_DECLS with

#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif

and __END_DECLS with

#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif

If you want to prepare a patch, I can test and with Jeroen's permission commit or at least add it to the musl overlay.
Comment 2 Berne Campbell 2021-01-14 11:34:03 UTC
Created attachment 682867 [details, diff]
Proposed Patch
Comment 3 Larry the Git Cow gentoo-dev 2021-05-01 18:05:44 UTC
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s):

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=ff505acf8b6e0cdf3edcee56d58079f4e4b17a31

commit ff505acf8b6e0cdf3edcee56d58079f4e4b17a31
Author:     David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>
AuthorDate: 2021-05-01 18:05:31 +0000
Commit:     David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>
CommitDate: 2021-05-01 18:05:31 +0000

    app-misc/figlet: fix building on musl
    
    * The patch is from Alpine and the ebuild changes are
      not copyrightable.
    
    Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/20385
    Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/608172
    Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.18, Repoman-3.0.3
    Signed-off-by: David Seifert <soap@gentoo.org>

 app-misc/figlet/figlet-2.2.5-r1.ebuild        |  2 ++
 app-misc/figlet/files/figlet-2.2.5-musl.patch | 36 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 38 insertions(+)